Black Sunshine

Books | Fiction / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology

3.5

(222)

Karina Halle

A standalone contemporary dark romance with a vampire twist, from the New York Times bestselling author of A Nordic King and Sins & Needles All Lenore Warwick wants for her 21st birthday is to hang out with her friends, finish her second year at Berkeley with flying colors, and maybe catch the eye of a hot musician playing a show at a club that she can now (legally) get into.Unfortunately, fate has other plans for her.A week before her birthday, she's kidnapped by the brooding and dangerous stranger with cold eyes and a lethal touch, who has been stalking her on San Francisco's fog-shrouded streets. Absolon Stavig isn't your average criminal though. He's a centuries-old vampire who's caught between wanting to kill Lenore and wanting to save her.You see Lenore, too, is a vampire.She just doesn't know it yet.Taken by a pair of vampire slayers when she was just an infant, Lenore was raised never knowing her true nature. All Lenore knows is that she has (normal) parents who love her, that she's exceptionally smart, and she's squeamish around blood. But once she turns twenty-one, she'll fully turn into a vampire, and Solon hopes he'll be there to guide her, opening her eyes to her deepest hunger...both sexual and otherwise.But this turning can't be kept a secret. Soon both slayers and vampires are hunting Lenore, with only Solon and his unpredictable motley crew of vampires to save her.If they don't kill her first.Black Sunshine is a dark adult standalone romance with a paranormal twist, about sex, love, secrets, and revenge, set in contemporary San Francisco. CONTENT WARNING: as a vampire romance with a sexy bite, it features blood, blood play, cutting, bondage, and scenes of dubious consent

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Author

Karina Halle

Pages

450

Publisher

Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US

Published Date

2021-03-23

ISBN

9798727246184

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"So I liked this story, I enjoyed Lenore and her valiant efforts at trying to understand what she was becoming. The story intrigued a little but it was the spice kept me here. However, this book had the potential to be dark, twisty and absolutely gut wrenching. In my opinion the HEA was delivered on a silver platter and that’s not something I thoroughly enjoyed. Solon and Lenore struggled around each other but I felt like conflicts were resolved rather quickly. I wish there had been more angst, more situations where Lenore was able to tap into both of her parts and learned more about what and who she had become. This story has all the best tropes, I just feel like maybe they weren’t fully developed? I was also left with so many questions, which ultimately I guess maybe is a sign of a good book? But how come Tabitha was killed setting all of this into motion? Or was Lenore’s true father really the catalyst? I know that there’s more that may come to light in the subsequent books, maybe that’ll bring me back into it."

Soni C.

"Loved this book 4 starts for me not 5 because I feel it wasn’t long enough and something was missing? Maybe more gore or something more dark?. Maybe I will catch it in the next book. "

Nikki B

"honestly, it started off pretty strong. the beginning of the book was pretty scary, but it just lost all of that. the writer also has a few habits that I couldn't look past. she would tell what song was playing in the background when describing a new scene that just gave me the ick. she carried on the "I know I shouldn't love him" thing too long and would call out nonbinary people when describing something gendered that could've easily been replaced with a simple "everyone." it just felt weird the more you got into it. it felt almost like a kids' book, then immediately when to very graphic ****. the concept overall is pretty good, but I just felt it could've been executed better. the **** scenes were also very detached and very short, almost like she felt uncomfortable writing them "

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Haley Andreasen

"Dark read but very good 4stars."

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Amber Yusko

"<strong>It's good</strong><br/><br/>I enjoyed if but i wanted to know more about the legends that this world is all about. I love solon and Lenore but the parents were weird. And i wanted to know more about them too"